Allison Henrich

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Allison Henrich (born 1980)[1] is an American mathematician specializing in knot theory and also interested in undergraduate-level mathematics research mentorship. She is a professor of mathematics at Seattle University.[2]

Education and career[edit]

Henrich entered college planning for an undergraduate teaching career,[3] graduated in 2003 from the University of Washington with a double major in mathematics and philosophy. She completed a Ph.D. at Dartmouth College in 2008.[2] Her dissertation, A Sequence of Degree One Vassiliev Invariants for Virtual Knots, was supervised by Vladimir Chernov.[4] At Dartmouth, Carolyn S. Gordon became another faculty mentor.[3]

She joined the Seattle University mathematics faculty in 2009,[2] and was promoted to full professor in 2019.[5]

Books[edit]

Henrich is the coauthor of a book on knot theory, An Interactive Introduction to Knot Theory (with Inga Johnson, Dover Publications, 2017). She also coauthored the book A Mathematician’s Practical Guide to Mentoring Undergraduate Research (with Michael Dorff and Lara Pudwell, Mathematical Association of America, American Mathematical Society, and Council on Undergraduate Research, 2019).[6]

With Emille D. Lawrence, Matthew Pons, and David Taylor, she co-edited the book Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey (American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, 2019).[7] She is also an editor of Knots, Links, Spatial Graphs, and Algebraic Invariants (with Erica Flapan, Aaron Kaestner, and Sam Nelson, American Mathematical Society, 2017).

Recognition[edit]

In 2015, the Mathematical Association of America gave Henrich their Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, and also their Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award for expository excellence for her article "Unknotting unknots" coauthored with Louis Kauffman.[8] The award citation for the Alder Award cited her work in interactive learning, in guiding undergraduate mathematics students to become mentors to elementary school students, and in founding a summer research program at for underrepresented undergraduates, hosted at Seattle University.[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-02-15
  2. ^ a b c "Allison Henrich, Ph.D", Faculty & Staff, Seattle University, archived from the original on 2020-02-16, retrieved 2020-02-15
  3. ^ a b "Allison Henrich, '08 PhD Mathematics", Alumni Profiles, Dartmouth College, July 2017, retrieved 2020-02-15
  4. ^ Allison Henrich at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ "Tenure and promotions announced for 2019-2020", The Newsroom, Seattle University, April 12, 2019, archived from the original on 2020-02-16, retrieved 2020-02-15
  6. ^ "Review of A Mathematician's Practical Guide to Mentoring Undergraduate Research", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America, February 2, 2020, retrieved 2020-02-15
  7. ^ Boaler, Jo (January 2020), "Review of Living Proof", Math Horizons, 27 (3): 29, doi:10.1080/10724117.2019.1691860, S2CID 213567696
  8. ^ "MAA Awards Presented" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 62 (10): 1221, November 2015
  9. ^ Beginning Faculty Receive the Mathematical Association of America's Alder Awards for Teaching, Mathematical Association of America, July 29, 2015, retrieved 2020-02-15

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